The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-14
GohleUille.


Geo. Beddo has been in town for few
days. a
Quarterly meeting commences at this place
next Friday.
A letter is advertised here directed to the
Gobleville bank.
MIR. Edwards, our photographer, is being
rushed with business.
Prof. Sooy was called to Dowagiac last
week, to attend his sick child.
w. II. Ferguson returned from his bar"
hunt up north without any fur
The people here have decided on having
an old fashioned Christmas tree.
Yes, trapping in Grand Rapids don't you
know the city is full OF man traps?
The surprise-donation at Mrs. Sisson's
last week netted twenty-five dollars.
Mr. Carpenter is about closing trade
with II. Wilson of Waverly, for his farm.
We are glad to hear that our old comrade,
Chas. Stratton of Otsego, has received a pen
sion.
Mrs. Marsh Whitelaw of Kansas, daughter
of VIM. Van Wickle. is on a visit to her
parents.
Clarence Westcott, at the Valparaiso nor
,Aaal school, reports twenty-five hundred
Sdpils there.
See & Son are building an awning over
the front of their store to cover the side
walk-a very necessary improvement
The choir and some very particular friends
of Mrs. S. T.. Speicher made a raid upon her
and prGsented her with q very nice center
table.
Some people here don't know whether a
pair of twins consists of two or four persons.
Give US the NoRTHEBNERs view. Give it
up. Ed
Any one who has money and is ambitious
TO shine as an editor. can have the opportun-
ity by bringing an Office here. z. S.-Never
mind the brains.
Old Mr.. Beardslee has returned from Hi
neis, his son-in-law. Mr.. Scarlet. accompany
ing him. Mr.. s. intends to take up his resi-
dence in Otsego.
Our old friend, Ben. Smith of Columbia.
has been at mis- old trick of buying timber.
This time it is in Waverly near Stinerville
Jim Loyeland will draw it 10 his mill at this
place.
We hear that the Ratchet they use at the
Glendale church has undergone its annual
burial. The trouble IN that locality is that
the soil is very loose and it can be easily
dug up again.
Trains are not usually over an hour late AT
the station and. on Saturday last it was only
an hour after the mail reached the depot
before it arrived at the postoilice. And yet
some people complain.
The amount raised for church purposes
were taken to our reporting the liabilities
against the parsonage az church debt-a
disthyction without difference
The factory has been idle during the past
week, the boiler flues having been sent TO
Kalamazoo for repairs. Mr.. Wilds and fam
ily have taken advantage of this circum
stance to visit his parents in Alamo.
Seventy-four cents is being paid here fol
wheat; S1.90 is TIE tariff on j. G.'s best
flour: butter can be bought for twenty cents
eggs the same; and what is called a bushe
of potatoes can be had for eighty cents.
waverly farmer was so incensed be
cause local option was carried that he came
near turning of his chore boy and refused
to allow neighbors to talk on the question il
his home We think he will change his
views within year or so.
G.. w. Bush, at the donation the othe
night in the fullness of his heart offered &
kiss all the old maids and widows present
only one availed herself of the offer, and th
osc<satory report scared several timid ole
ladies who had recently been reading o
dynamite bombs.
One of our anti-local-option men her
gave the best argument against whiske.
being left around where it could be reached
handy of any we have heard. He said, :" i
IL hadn't been for whiskey, | would hav
been a dead man" So you see that th
public interests demand that whiskey shal
sgo.
Myers Bros have a novel way Of selling
big doll. A list of little girls names
printed and any one has chance to vote TO
his favorite by paying two cents per vote
At that rate one can vote as often as n
wishes. The little girl receiving The great
esr number of votes by the 9th inst re
cefyes the doll.